egypt's new leader gets the cold shoulder in the united states has evolved to lessen america's influence after his predecessors decades of being washington friendly. a brazen syrian rebel attack on a border post sends the lebanese army out for revenge with violence between pro and anti assad factions spilling across the middle east. and the hundreds of millions of pounds spent by the british government on foreign countries that barely need aid pushing further constantine if it comes.

onscreen and online twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is r t. well the growing on time merican course in the muslim world sees more salt being rubbed into the wounded relations between the united states and egypt it's a concern that critics say is hollowed by the fact that no meeting is expected between the leaders during president morsi visit to the u.s. for the u.n. general assembly. has more on whether egypt's new leader will be able to show more independence from washington and its predecessor. mohamed morsi came to power on promises to make could the capital of palestine and open up egypt's corridor with gaza his presidency promised his supporters a chance to reclaim egypt some pride especially on the international stage one of

the curious things is that the americans have been to egypt since morsi was elected and they congratulated him but morsi didn't rush off to united states he went to china instead and also to iran which was a diplomatic snub to united states but the snub it seems more of a token gesture because when angry egyptians took to the streets to protest against the united states the muslim brotherhood kept in the background and president morsi is criticism of the u.s. was muted dr saeed sadik a longtime observer of egyptian foreign policy says morsi cannot replace the united states with another world superpower but godless of how much he might want to change your foreign policy or restructure it's a big process and you need to own it up and the alternative is not i don't think china is for. placement the fact is there for egypt to prosper and solve its economic problems it still needs washington cairo receives close to two billion

u.s. dollars a year in economic and military aid and so two and a half months into his presidency the new muslim brotherhood president is having to maintain an increasingly delicate balancing act his hardline supporters on the one hand the west and washington on the other prompting many observers to ask what if anything has changed since mubarak's era egypt today is not very different than it had been under mubarak egypt u.s. relations during the mubarak era or quite strong the u.s. is an important partner. economic partner for egypt and it would be very difficult for us to any president coming in during the nomic crisis to rock the boat but the recent violent demonstrations duwayne. talks of a proposed one billion american dollars in debt relief to egypt and although washington stresses this is merely temporary and there's no major shift in u.s. aid to egypt and the relationship between the two countries remains strained this war was erected several days ago to prevent protesters from reaching the american

embassy on the other side but there is no sign of anyone wanting to take it down a physical reminder of the growing barrier that now exists between cairo and washington but it's a barrier that neither side wants to make permanent because while morsi might be pulls apart politically for me. on the international front he's trading remarkably close policy r.t. . in his latest interview ahead of his u.s. trip the egyptian leader said washington should make the first steps to restore its image in the arab world and mend ties with cairo. ahmed morsi explicitly says america's unconditional support for israel and its meddling into some arab states affairs has brought only hatred of from its people there and he insists that egypt will no longer live by u.s. rules watch or the president has to say to the american public all at our t.v. dot com. lebanon has ordered its security forces to hunt down

a contingent of rebels from the free syrian army after a firefight at a border checkpoint the militants had launched an attack on a lebanese border post from syria before escaping for other inland and as artie's lucy koffler reports for love anon it's a bitter reminder of the past. lebanon fought its own civil war on sectarian lines for fifteen years and now the syrian conflict is literally spilling across its border syrian troops have carried out incursions into lebanese territory while rebels take shelter in lebanese towns it has aggravated i'm healed wounds from the past storing fears of a new civil war it is polarized the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is resulted in. that have happened in beirut lebanon of course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict

lebanon sunni's mainly support syria's rebels including the powerful militant group hezbollah tend to back president bashar al assad a member of the alawite sect lebanon was divided in half between the groups that support the syrian syrian regime and those people were actually. helping and corrupt allies in going there for what they scald the free syrian army nowhere is that divide and more violently visible than in tripoli on the streets of lebanon's second largest city and sunni gunmen have been battling it out we spoke to fighters on both sides who showed no willingness to disarm. ok. you know this is the leader of a sunni militia here in tripoli is babble to ban islam i asked him whether peace with his opponents is possible. as long as assad remains in power there won't be peace in syria lebanon or iraq or power stone through be no peace while he is in

force and neighboring general must send an alawite fighter shows me the destroyed remains of his home when asked to explain the recent fighting with his sunni neighbors this was his response not the dollars just we are defending ourselves against machines of terror in their series who are being brought in from abroad. even the. to defend islam as most unifying figure the prophet muhammad wasn't enough to bridge lebanon's sick tarion divide in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has turned tens of thousands of she is to the streets days later a hardline sunni cleric gathered his own supporters in the capital he may have been united in their outrage but protesters carried flags that left no doubt which side of the syrian divide they're on for now lebanon is holding together but some residents here wonder whether this is just the calm before the storm all of this is your eyes are going to go. get their start start reducing the streets here that.

they're going to fight it's not so it's going to this shelled out building stands in beirut green line which for nearly two decades divided this city journey lebanon's bitter civil war christian communities lived over here to the east muslim communities lived across the street to the west but as the armed conflict in syria continues to escalate just across the border many here in lebanon fear that the fragile peace could yet again be shattered and that sectarian tensions could once again plunge this nation of nearly four million into another civil war for our t. and lucy california in beirut international anger over the you tube film mocking as is still a blaze with new protests flaring up worldwide in sri lanka some twenty thousand muslims marched on a lockdown and heavily barricaded u.s. embassy carrying anti-american banners protestors demanded a mouse boycott of u.s. made good company similar sentiments was seen in greece for

a crowd of time to storm the u.s. embassy and now fence it follows on rust in france sparked by the publication of caricature of the prophet muhammad in a french newspaper several demonstrators were arrested in ensuing rallies for defying a government ban on protests france based journalist robert harness paris only house. itself to blame for falling out of favor the followers of islam. the government is in a very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistences on is alarming there's that aspect of it and also they want to appear to be punching above their weight to use a british expression in international politics because they want to keep their veto in the united nations so there is no difficulty on the other hand there is a growing feeling in left wing circles that the government's policy is nonsense you cannot support it terrorism on monday and condemn it on tuesday and support it

again on wednesday they're playing it both ways they don't want to enrage the the people the alleged five million people of muslim backgrounds in france are a lot of people on the other hand they got to stick to their line that they allow free speech which of course is only allowed in front on certain subjects. from our listeners of other stories log on to our team dot com here's what else is there for you including all the king's horses to catch the founder of. a very new zealand spy agency was involved in the arrest of kim dotcom at our web site find out why their methods have a truck just condemnation. plus after israel ramped up its rhetoric over iran's nuclear program now its tough problems turn into saber rattling saying its rival is not the only one which can strike first learn more at our t.v. dot com. british households are feeling the squeeze from government can't that are giving their income upholding but

a fair chunk of their tax money is still being spent on foreign projects and it's not all about good charity as artist polly boyko explains from london i'm standing in front of the london headquarters of adam smith international according to that website they provide consultancy on economic and government reform well the website doesn't say is that i want of a number of funds to have profited heavily from the british government's foreign aid budget last year alone the u.k.'s department for international development spent over five hundred million pounds on international projects abroad that's allowed the executives in the company behind me to pocket fix biggest salaries and million pound bonuses britain's hefty foreign aid budget includes an annual spend of two hundred eighty million pounds that goes to india that's despite the fact that india's economy is so successful that they themselves provide two billion pounds worth of international aid each year now at

a time when the coalition government is considering freezing benefits for the most vulnerable in the u.k. society some m.p.'s here are wondering whether all this taxpayers' money should be spent they've called questionable foreign aid the department for international development has said they're going to stop giving aid to india but that. doesn't stop them building a new office in india this is going to be quite shortly spending four hundred thousand pounds of money on furniture now this isn't the kind of spending that want to see given the pressure on their own budgets for critics of the u.k. substantial foreign aid budget there's more bad news on the way prime minister david cameron is planning on increasing it that's going to mean lucrative contracts for so-called poverty barons that run consultancy firms like the one behind me now in recent days the bank of england has one struggling british households to brace themselves the price hikes in food and fuel with poverty here in the u.k. predicted to increase over the next eight years many struggling households are

going to be left wondering whether all that money spent abroad on what many call questionable foreign aid might be better used to home. so i had for you in a few minutes turning up the hate in the oriental complex. storm at sea as china unveils strong surveillance plans for islands just spirits with japan with fears that the asian giants could be searching towards a regional war. and the president and the ruling elite of bella roost are once again accused of a dictator like vote breaking up the opposition members bail entirely to win a single elementary school to stay with us for that.

i never thought i could earn a living this way. natalee issue of all is the norm or should test small arms so there's a lot almost machine building ploy and a lot of the also lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from your class submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans cells here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to for innisfail whole first century it's thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory russia's number one truck

maker or girls will look at how well the workplace is organized everything's gone to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was the old production is booming in the factory has largely managed to get on to civil. these giants are sold around the globe here based on brand new be no waiting to be delivered to a client seventy trucks like this one roll off the plants conveyor belts every day look at this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. i can go for a test drive. oh that was fun to get one of these to trouble to work every morning what's with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else here's some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew . was a big. welcome back to our karen terror the european election watchdog how slammed sunday's parliamentary vote below roost the results show a new lower house predominantly behind longstanding president onix on that. although c.i.s. observers say the election was fully democratic the result may further harm in six relations with the west as alexei at a shop ski reports. there will be no members of the opposition inside the belorussian parliament old hundred deputies which were elected following sunday's parliamentary elections will be supporting president lukashenko current political course this is according to the central election commission in this parliamentary

election the ballot was an unprecedented number of international observers with more than four hundred observers of which from the european union some of the international observers criticize the election calling them undemocratic and saying that the members of the opposition were not registered in the course of the campaign and had very little time on television which violates all democratic norms now such a result of the election is no surprise to most of the political analyst i spoke to some of them inside brother was just last week saying that they would not expect anything different from this election mainly because the opposition in the country had been divided the opposition decided to boycott the election and other parts of the opposition withdrew from the election at the very last moment this election paints a very grim picture for those relations with the european union with so much criticism coming from europe which you are actually had hoped for

a proper democratic election this time but certainly given the comments coming from the international european observers about the election this seems to be it still seems to be an issue and hardly the relations between the rest of europe will become any better anytime soon china plans to use on man drones to increase its presence around the islands that are at the center of all chill dispute with japan they will conduct marine surveillance of the area three chinese patrol vessel still remain very close to the uninhabited strategic arc and have briefly entered waters which japan considers its territory the conflict seen protests in both countries turn ugly around could be further. complicatedness time when these vaults are now heading to the islands to reassert their fishing rights in the area while all around the u.s. is increasing its military activity in the region which defense analyst. says could be a clear path to an all out war. but they say the secretary of defense but he fears

that there. could be a war between you're probably china he also expressed that the united states is going to support so that means that if you come to blows let's hope let's see the chart that would send the labor force to try to appreciate as they serve each force the change for the good of course charge that tries to follow their measures like try to locate your perfect c three the further side of the united states. of communication and that could lead to a major regional war at least to. the us what once. a georgian government is scrambling to save face ahead of next week's election after the release of shocking footage of prisoner abuse although several prison officials have been arrested and two key ministers have quit the way of

a few protests. as r.t. discovered from the man who exposed the videos president saakashvili was perfectly aware of what was going on in the facilities. the public is in fact still so shocked and angry that their father comparing the footage from george and for those with back from guantanamo except it convenes a suspected terrorist plot here we're talking about georgia in me another factor irritating the public right now is the recent arrest of one of the poor meters of the student protest movement got you to ignore you he was detained on saturday by traffic police officer we were not abiding to the authorities orders he was put in prison for ten days but it is reported that he wasn't even the crime he wheeled off before stopped by the police early our team out of me told the americans started all this relief that their videos i was going to be the crowds that we used to be one of the senior staff members of the coup but he wasn't in b.c. when the first of all these shots many of these videos for those georges interior

minister showed the videos to the president it was just for fun for no particular reason it was like we do what we want with people once he take you to prison you are nobody you have new dignity this is why these videos cause such how you treat you in georgia all of this is definitely a huge blow to be a mutual theo gordie's since me i will actually go to parliament it's growing up on the first of october at a boarding to be elitist moves both president saakashvili and the ruling party of ordeal lost up to twenty percent of supporters. a look at some other headlines from around the world clashes between squatters and quiet police in the philippines camp at all times left over two dozen people injured violence broke out after demolition crews tried to enter a barricaded building for illegal homes were set up but angry residents responded

by throwing stones police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the angry crowd at times to hold down the shanty town of homs after squatters ignored. and official requests to relocate. a woman and an eight year old boy have been killed in a suicide bomb blast targeting a catholic church in northern nigeria the attacker tried to ram an explosives happed car into the building but was blocked by security barriers churches in the region have recently suffered a number of similar assaults by radical islamic sect. could become the latest european nation to seek a bailout a senior official says the request could be made by november it's followed buddha post kudos for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are in difficulty between uncertainty in the

euro zone and the global financial gloom. now starting with finance let's join katie and see what's happening in the business world this hour kitty over to you carol where you just mentioned gloom i'm afraid those moral but if we look at the numbers the markets very much speak for the european situation there's a plethora of news releases today coming out and the like to spend a grease talk about eminem but up packages we've also got the news that germany of false disagreed a went to introduce a banking union for the year at and added to all of that a report about the strength of the chinese economy that's all having its toll on the markets as you can see the foot over a cent in negative territory this hour and all of that need is feeding into the euro as the dollar ramps up against investors really heading for the safer haven in these uncertain times meanwhile we've got the ruble is still performing mixed gets

the last bit of current is now a legendary investor jim rogers he recently said that he's interested in buying into the ruble and surrogate goody after mushes new economic school says such a decision could prove to be profitable. in an economy like russia currency is a function no david allowed to flow in price both things are very volatile so it's a cave it was going to be it does much it would be much worse if central bank defended the ruble or kept it from appreciation i think it's very good it was determined by the market russian this is are generally no undervalued and as i said if russian government realizes the potential aggression again i mean they'll be capital out of good building floor and this will come jurist will make a lot of money and that i think is understood by jim rogers ok let's talk about the exit markets and here moscow as you can see is a bit of a dive day and that's largely because of the international pressure is taking

a toll we kicked off down and that was because of the asian session as well as up. we've got oil prices taking a nosedive to now moving on russia's top ten lend p.s.p. will go public the bank will reportedly offer up just thirty percent of its shares in most go in london by mid october raising around up in dollars it follows a similar move by russia's top that as these awful was twice oversubscribed so there we are lots of real business so you can all be back in about fifteen minutes time with hopefully another color around him thank you very much for that update katie. all the way over to you takes you to eighteen twelve and me wife all the soldiers in russia's war against napoleon.

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on september the seventh they seemed twelve a quarter of a million men stood on this field waiting to decide the fate of the russian empire it was the bloodiest single day of the entire napoleonic wars and now two centuries on the soldiers are back to do it all again. in just under two hours the fighting here will be over the several days now more than three thousand men women and children have left the twenty first century

behind to plunge headlong into the nineteenth they come to this small rural area just one hundred twenty kilometers from moscow to when the split uniforms find their muskets and launch daring cavalry charges they travel from across the world to be part of the largest napoleonic reenactment ever see on russian soil the bicentenary of the battle of the world you know. and to be an effective napoleonic soldier you have to live like a napoleonic soldier the whole experience is supposed to be as authentic as possible and that means all reactors really try to live the lives of their eight hundred twelve.